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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Thing Father Never Told Me
Proving that rules of gentlemanly conduct which we all accept as gospel are not only irksome but dangerous.
— Stuart Kinzie — 23
Father Had It Soft
Pay no attention when the old guy groans about the hard knocks he suffered—he was lucky to grow up in peace.
— Mark Ashley — 24
On Wings of Wood
Plastic plywood, the strongest substance available for planes, is waterproof, weatherproof, and easily repaired.
— Robert W. Marks — 35
No More Comic Relief
Regarding the no-longer-funny Jap spy whose total espionage and counter espionage won the first part of the Pacific War.
— Curt Riess — 40
How We Got Our Blue Laws
Tracing these pious injunctions through the Puritans to Charlemagne, Ethelstan, Constantine, even the Babylonians.
— Harold Harker — 47
Circus Wind-Jammer
For twenty-four years Merle Evans has cued the acts of Ringling shows with his sauced-off silver cornet.
— Howard W. Turtle — 52
Be Superstitious and Win
Bizarre runs of cards in bridge explode mathematical theories on which all systems of bidding and play are based.
— Henry C. Nicholas — 57
Keep Cool with Your Coat On
Southerners’ pet formulas for combating the heat cover diet, clothing, hygiene, the home, and psychology.
— Sigmund Sameth — 88
DEPARTMENTS
Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury. The People, Yes and No — 10
Contributors: Backstage with Esquire. All that’s fit to print about them — 20
The Lively Arts: No More Parades?
To steam up our lagging war spirit.
— Gilbert Seldes — 62
Potables: Suds Smite the Spot
Thanks to brewer, brewmaster and good American hops.
— Lawton Mackall — 69
Wearables: A Clothes Call for Father
Suggestions for June 21st.
— O. E. Schoeffler — 76
Theatre: First Nights & Passing Judgments
Weighing last season’s plays.
— George Jean Nathan — 81
Books: Esquire’s Five-Minute Shelf
Dr. Morrison discovers Columbus.
— William Lyon Phelps — 83
Edibles: Man the Kitchenette
Brunswick Stew and Japanese Disaster.
— Iles Brody — 86
FICTION
There Must Be a Losing Coach
It was an open secret Swede’s father would be through coaching unless the Wildcats won the game against State.
— Samuel W. Taylor — 26
Her Uncle vs. His Father
Elizabeth contended that anybody who knew Oxford couldn’t be sap enough to enter his son at St. Ambrose’s College.
— Graham Greene — 30
A Story Teller’s Story
You can imagine the confusion caused by a lady spah who frankly publicized her activity on behalf of the Germans.
— Louis Paul — 38
A Little Bedroom Far Away
How an arrogant student was humbled and his whole life changed by a peasant bedroom in Southern France.
— Manuel Komroff — 42
Bury Your Dead
Pa and Ma loved they’d rather see Cejf dead and in his coffin as to be married to one of Snort Pratt’s family.
— Jesse Stuart — 50
The Little Acorn
None of Dex’s crowd had been to the sub-deb parties yet, and even a sharp apple like Stubhand didn’t make the Chatham.
— Oden Houghart Meeker — 54
The Sacrifice Hit
The old guy in right field kept dropping easy flies, and yet there was nary a boo from the bleachers.
— Henry Vance and Zipp Newman — 59
Excursion Down Ruby Street
It occurred to Mrs. Geranium Finn that adventure would not come to her that day if she waited in her room.
— Edward Harris Heth — 70
The Two Hunters
The deputy told Lacey not to worry, there were few men who wouldn’t have made the same bargain to help him find the still.
— H. L. Simpson — 74
PERSONALITIES
Father of the C.Y.O.
“From death cell to the Vatican, from ward heeler to White House… has roved this strenuous cleric.”
— Herb Graffis — 29
Darrel Austin: The Young Master
His pictures record a private watery world where men have ceased to fight, women to love and beasts to prey.
— Harry Salpeter — 64
PICTORIAL FEATURES
Cover Design
There’ll always be a Father’s Day.
Modeled by L. S. Soderstrom
Just Like the Girl Who
Verses by Phil Stack; Drawings by Arthur T. Blomquist — 31
The Varga Girl
Heritage
Verse by Phil Stack; Painting by Varga — 33
“December 7th, 1941”
Wake Up, America
Painting by Arthur Szyk — 55
The Holbein Girl
Rapunzel with lipstick
Kodachromed by Erwin Blumenfeld — 56
A Group of Paintings
Courtesy of Perls Galleries, New York City
— by Darrel Austin — 65
Veda Ann Borg
In Hal Roach’s About Face
Photographed by Hurrell — 79
Gift Page
Dadenda for June 21st
Photography by Howard S. Redell — 99
The Boston Terrier
True American-made breed
Photographed by Henry Waxman — 101
“Mallards at Sunrise”
Matin by the lake
Water Color by Walter E. Bohl — 102
For the Fathers of the Country
Gifts for home defenders
Kodachromes by Howard S. Redell — 124
SPORTS
The Sporting Scene
Wartime readers prefer more news of physical training for all the military, less ballyhoo over a few publicity pets.
— Herb Graffis — 37
The Subway Miler
Running was considered a country boy’s game until Leslie MacMitchell came up from the sidewalks of New York.
— Roger Birtwell — 49
Go When the Going Is Good
Since fish are temperamental, swayed by whims of weather, consulting daily reports will help promote a good catch.
— John Alden Knight — 60
But Fish Waive the Rules
Angler disproves Old Wives’ Tales of fishing in a thunderstorm, letting a trout see you, and dark flies on light days.
— Harry Botsford — 61
Ted Williams: Evangelical Swatter
Nobody ever taught “The Lamb” how to bat; the .406 hitting champion of the American League, he just swings.
— Al Wesson — 73
The Esquire Sports Poll
Sports editors, sportscasters, amateur and pro players answer a questionnaire devoted to golf.
— Herb Graffis & Ralph Cannon — 84
TRENDS IN DRESS
New Clothes, Accessories, sketched by Pachner, Hughes, Goodman, Saalburg, Fellows — beginning on 77